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LOL. No, I actually wasn't. Just making an observation. I would say I was about a notch or 2 above the sweats and t-shirt look, I wasn't paying attention to anything but my phone and somehow got a guy to come up to me a couple of times to strike up a conversation and then go and tell my friend that he should get a group to go to a movie or something so he can talk to me in a group setting.

Other times, I'm dressed a lot nicer and paying more attention to my surroundings and don't get a second look from any guy.

A single female friend asked me what it is I'm doing, and I told her: I wish I knew! I'd share my secret. LOL.

This, I absolutely have to co-sign with. Most of my friends are men. Most of my coworker friends are men and whilst they let their guard down with me, somewhat, I know for a fact they aren't talking in front of me, like they would if no female was present. How do I know? Because I get brief glimpses when my two coworker friends forget that I'm there and start talking about raunchy stuff (this happens at lunch out of the office) and then they realize I'm there, and it gets PG-13 again.

 

See, now I heard all the X rated stuff from the guys I worked with. No PG-13. It may have to do with the fact that I was the ONLY woman in the department, or that we routinely worked 12-18 hour days, sometimes as long as 48 hours straight, often ate together, drank together, etc. After about 20 hours straight, trust me, there's absolutely NO filters left on anything *any* of us said.

 

Yeah but there's no event like that that men would go gaga over. Unless we ourselves are involved in it.

 

I don't want to take away from Trixie's experiences but I know the men I work with or even hang with and we filter ourselves around women. Maybe its a social thing but there's a difference. Men filter themselves around their partners what makes any woman think they won't do that with co workers lol

 

And I give you....THE SUPERBOWL! So much discussion of the personal lives of the players.

 

I think perhaps my experiences were different because in that environment, not only being the only woman, but the FIRST woman, made a difference. They weren't used to working with women, so it was on me to fit myself into that culture, rather than on them to behave differently.

 

So not the same. We actually care about performance not arbitrary details like the color of the jersey.

 

That was the most cognitive dissonance ever. Super-radical fist-in-the-air fire-breathing, bisexual feminist professional victim anti-male hear-me-roar warrior turning to jelly over the fairy tale Royal Wedding. Really? I actually lost respect for DB after that display.

 

You'll never get a explaination on that one brotha. The very idea of being a princess/queen means being second to a man the rest of your life.

 

Elizabeth I would beg to differ, but for women (most) who will never be a princess or queen yet fawn over such regalia, it does tend to make them look rather infantile.

 

Yeah it depends entirely on whether you are of the ruling family or the guy is. Elizabeth II is married to Prince Philip. She's the monarch, he's the consort.

The idea of being a princess is a bit skeevy to me but that probably has more to do with Walt Disney than anything else.

 

Personally I think the Brits should've done with their royal family what France and Russia did to theirs.

And when I see these young girls prancing around like they're Cinderella, it makes me think that they'll be a fucking headache to any future boyfriend or husband.

 

While I differ from you on the British royal family, I think anyone raised as a princess is likely to be a pain in the arse to everyone around her.

 

And that shows you how weak the idea of a Queen is. A man can elevate a woman but a woman can't elevate a woman. It's a sad system

 

Probably not, but a woman *can* elevate a man. Elizabeth chose not to do so.

 

Proof please becaise I've never heard of that.

 

Uh . . . "The Virgin Queen" dude, the fuck they teach you at UConn?

 

Victoria didnt raise Albert either, undoubtedly as a combination of both her desire to rule on her own, and the perception that the people would not stand for a foreign king.

It is also assumed that Charles's wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will not be queen either. She has never been given the title of Princess of Wales, probably because the British people would never have stood for it (Diana, Charles's first wife, and he divorced amid lots of recriminations and the public evidence he'd been cheating on her with Camilla from the start).

When Philip and Elizabeth married, he was made HRH Philip, Duke of Edinborough. He had to convert to Anglicanism, and reject his Greek and Danish titles and become a UK citizen.

In terms of precedence a King is higher than a Queen, which means that in every case where there is a King and a Queen, the King would outrank the Queen. When it is a Queen who holds the throne in her own right (a Queen regnant, like the present Queen Elizabeth II), her consort has been referred to as a Price to make the point that it is she that takes precedence. Therefore, the Queen Mother was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (Queen to King George VI), but Queen Victoria's husband was Prince Albert and Queen Elizabeth II's husband is Prince Philip.

Because she did not want to give him precedence over here, Elizabeth chose not to make him king.


Mary Tudor did make her husband King, though his duties in Spain and probably his dislike for her meant he didnt spend much time or energy in England except to try and ensure it remained Catholic

From the biography of Mary

The marriage took place two days after their meeting, on July 25th, the day of St. James- patron saint of Spain. After the wedding, they were proclaimed:

Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, France and Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland, defenders of the faith, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and the Tyrol.

The only example where both a King and a Queen have jointly shared power and held the throne is with King William and Queen Mary at the end of the 17th century. This was because they held the throne jointly.

When James VII fled, the throne was offered to his daughter Mary, who was married to William of Orange (after William invaded) and the throne was offered to them jointly, in spite of the fact that it was Mary who was in line for the throne. Upon her death, William ruled until 1702 in his own name. Since they had no living children, Mary's sister Anne took the throne, and did not make her husband king.


There has been a long tradition of English queens not making their husbands king, especially if the husband is not British by birth. The British are rather dubious about being ruled by foreigners.

 

I certainly wish that technological devices maintain their efficiency for years to come. But now, this wireless adapter is acting up and I fear that it'll go kaput pretty soon.

 

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